Apart from Nothing Study Guide

We invite you to continue our learning with Rabbi Margolius by considering these questions and their implications for your work.


Educators:

• What most resonated with you?
• What are you doing to provide opportunities for personal narratives?
• What are the differences between communal vs. personal truths?
• What is the picture of the Jewish future this portrays?
• What (in the article) resonates with you?
• What stands apart and why?
• Where is your school on the continuum of this process?
• Rosenzweig text: What are the things that your Institution does that are important to the congregants?

Lay People

• Identify the sentence that most resonated with you.
• How do you understand the fragmentation referred to in the article?
• How do you understand the wholeness he is describing?
• What ways/parts of your life do you experience fragmentation? … experience wholeness/oneness?
• In what ways do you experience fragmentation in your synagogue? … wholeness/oneness?
• What is happening in this community/synagogue that you experience as important/significant? What was meaningful about it?
• What are you yearning for in your life/family? … in the synagogue? What would you do to achieve it?

Clergy

• Where do you personally begin? How do you connect into this?
• How might your educator read and understand this text?
• How would you weave this into your work in “disparate aspects” of your community?
• What does this look like? Give examples of integration.
• What do you do after the integration to continue the effects and work?
• How do we construct experiences that get to this integration?
• What needs to go into the experience?